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Post by dem bones on Oct 31, 2012 22:38:12 GMT
Marie O'Regan (ed) - The Mammoth Book Of Ghost Stories By Women (Robinson, Nov. 2012) Acknowledgements
Marie O'Regan - Introduction
Kim Lakin-Smith - Field Of The Dead
Sarah Pinborough - Collect Call
Kelley Armstrong - Dead Flowers By The Roadside
Mary Elizabeth Braddon - The Shadow In The Corner
Caitlan R. Kiernan - The Madam Of The Narrow Houses
Mary E. Wilkins Freeman - The Lost Ghost
Sarah Langan - The Ninth Witch
Elizabeth Massie - Sister, Shhh ...
Alex Bell - The Fifth Bedroom
Alison Littlewood - Scairt
Nina Allan - Seeing Nancy
Lisa Tuttle - The Third Person
Nancy Holder - Freeze Out
Yvonne Navarro - Return
Mary Cholmondeley - Let Loose
Marion Arnott - Another One In The Cold
Lilith Saintcrow - My Moira
Nancy Kilpatrick - Forgive Us
Muriel Gray - Front Row Rider
Cynthia Asquith - God Grant That She Lye Still
Amelia B. Edwards - The Phantom Coach
Elizabeth Gaskell - The Old Nurse's Story
Gail Z. Martin - Among The Shoals Forever
Edith Wharton - Afterward
Gaie Sebold - A Silver Music
Author BiographiesHave yet to get hold a copy, but here's the table of contents to mull over. Bar the seven pre-WWII offerings, the bulk is mostly original to this collection, and nothing whatsoever from the pulps !!!.
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Post by cauldronbrewer on Nov 1, 2012 0:11:54 GMT
Bar the seven pre-WWII offerings, the bulk is mostly original to this collection, and nothing whatsoever from the pulps !!! And so The Mammoth Book of Weird Tales by Women Writers would make a great companion volume. ;D |
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Post by Shrink Proof on Jan 13, 2013 17:07:33 GMT
Have just received my copy in the post. It looks like an impressive selection and I'm quite taken with the cover photograph. Once I get the time space to get into it (yes, yes, I know...) I'll be back...
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Post by Shrink Proof on May 24, 2013 12:18:26 GMT
Just finished it. No, it hasn't taken me the four months since I posted that it'd arrived at Proof Acres to read it...
Definitely worth a punt, this one. The most impressive aspect (to my mind) is the range of the stories. From classic gaslit to fantasy to urban claustrophobia. This wide range means that the older tales don't seem to stick out like sore thumbs as they do in some compilations, jarring against the modern stuff (I could've done without another version of Amelia Edwards' "The Phantom Coach", though). Nevertheless I think the best tales are amongst the more recent. Honourable mention goes to Sarah Pinborough's for "Collect Call", which generates some serious, dream-like atmosphere - it's creepy to the max, and it's been a very long time since I stopped ploughing through an anthology at the end of a story and just flipped back to re-read it.
My favourite Mammoth for ages.
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Post by dem bones on May 24, 2013 13:38:05 GMT
Just finished it. No, it hasn't taken me the four months since I posted that it'd arrived at Proof Acres to read it... Definitely worth a punt, this one. The most impressive aspect (to my mind) is the range of the stories. From classic gaslit to fantasy to urban claustrophobia. This wide range means that the older tales don't seem to stick out like sore thumbs as they do in some compilations, jarring against the modern stuff (I could've done without another version of Amelia Edwards' "The Phantom Coach", though). Nevertheless I think the best tales are amongst the more recent. Honourable mention goes to Sarah Pinborough's for "Collect Call", which generates some serious, dream-like atmosphere - it's creepy to the max, and it's been a very long time since I stopped ploughing through an anthology at the end of a story and just flipped back to re-read it. My favourite Mammoth for ages. Thank you for so enthusiastic an endorsement, Mr. Proof - will have to step up my efforts to nab a copy. Kelley Armstrong: Library, bookshop, wherever I go there seem to be loads of her books on display, but am not sure I've read her at all. Dead Flowers By The Roadside any good? Sarah Pinborough's The Bohemian Of The Arbat in Stephen Jones' (excellent) Summer Chills is well worth seeking out. |
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Post by Shrink Proof on May 24, 2013 14:03:53 GMT
Well that's just weird. I returned my copy of "Mammoth Ghost Stories by Women" to the shelf and scanned along, looking for what to tackle next - I've tons of unread stuff and have been pushing myself to read more than I buy rather than vice versa. I eventually settled on Stephen Jones' "Summer Chills", what with me being due to go away for a while and it being unseasonably nippy hereabouts. Next thing I know you're posting something saying that that's what I should read next...
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Post by cauldronbrewer on May 25, 2013 16:54:22 GMT
Thank you for so enthusiastic an endorsement, Mr. Proof - will have to step up my efforts to nab a copy. Kelley Armstrong: Library, bookshop, wherever I go there seem to be loads of her books on display, but am not sure I've read her at all. Dead Flowers By The Roadside any good? Sarah Pinborough's The Bohemian Of The Arbat in Stephen Jones' (excellent) Summer Chills is well worth seeking out. I'll plan to seek out both of these. I've picked up and glanced through Summer Chills at the bookstore many times, but I've never actually gotten around to buying it. I think that Wharton's "Afterward" has been anthologized even more times than "The Phantom Coach." |
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